Get Started with Google Apps for Education (GAFE)

An easy way to begin understanding how to integrate Google Apps for Education into your classroom.

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Published 12/2015
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Course Description

Have you ever wanted to know more about using Google Apps for Education? Are you an educator who feels left in the dark about integrating technology into your classroom? Do you want your students to raise their level of collaboration? Would you like to streamline your classroom while moving toward a paperless school community? Pat yourself on the back, you have found the course for you!

This course covers basic concepts to get you started with Google Apps for Education. This course is for teachers who are not that tech savvy but would like to move towards being a technology using educator. As a student of this course you will have the opportunity to use your Google Apps for Education account (focusing on Docs, Forms, Sheets, Drawing and Classroom), experiment with Twitter to share and connect and to create a Storify account to save and curate valuable resources.

This is the first step for a new classroom. Will you take the plunge? Join us for Getting Started with Google Apps for Education (GAFE)

What are the requirements?

Google Apps for Education account is required for this course.

What am I going to get from this course?

Create Google Docs

Share Google Docs

Collaborate with Google Tools

Organize files in Google Drive

What is the target audience?

Teachers with low tech skills looking to get started with Google Apps. If you have created Google Docs and are generally familiar with Google Apps this course is not for you.

What you get with this course?

Not for you? No problem.30 day money back guarantee.

Forever yours.Lifetime access.

Learn on the go.Desktop, iOS and Android.

Get rewarded.Certificate of completion.

Curriculum

This course uses the class hashtag #GAFEintro. This allows us to view tips and share our learning together. Throughout the course please view the class hashtag and share your tips and resources on the hashtag.

For this course you will need to have a Google Apps for Education (GAfE) account. Most likely this is the school email account you have been using. Log into gmail.com and use your domain to sign in. [JEFF - CAN YOU CREATE A SHORT VIDEO ON HOW TO GO TO GMAIL AND SIGN INTO SCHOOL ACCOUNT]

For this course we will be using Twitter to share our learning. Google Apps is a collaboration suite. Thousands of educators are on Twitter who use Google Apps. Sharing through Twitter gives you the opportunity to engage with others taking this course and other educators who can help you get better!

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Instructor Biography

Alice Keeler is a Google for Education Certified Innovator and the author of 50 Things You Can Do With Google Classroom. Alice taught high school math for 14 years and is now teaching teachers at California State University Fresno. Alice also is an avid blogger on Educational Technology. Alice travels the world speaking and giving workshops on how to integrate technology into the classroom.

Instructor Biography

Taylor has a B.S. in Education from Baylor University as well as a Masters of Educational Technology from Boise State University as well as being a Google Certified Educator. Taylor has been teaching middle school in Hong Kong for the past 5 years, as well as being an instructor for Teach-Now, an online teacher certification program.

Instructor Biography

An online education specialist, Jeff has over twenty years of experience in creating exciting and transformational training and learning outcomes. Currently the co-founder and CEO of Sango Learning, a consortium of online learning professionals and thought leaders.